In a stunning win for the Second Amendment, San Diego U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez said background checks to buy ammo were “onerous and convoluted,” adding that they violate a citizen’s Second Amendment rights, the Associated Press reports.
Benitez wrote in his opinion: “The experiment has been tried. The casualties have been counted. California’s new ammunition background check law misfires and the Second Amendment rights of California citizens have been gravely injured… Criminals, tyrants, and terrorists don’t do background checks. The background check experiment defies common sense while unduly and severely burdening the Second Amendment rights of every responsible, gun-owning citizen desiring to lawfully buy ammunition.”
Absolute and compete common sense and proper legal reasoning from a government official. It is a rare and wonderful thing to behold.
Benitez is cleaning up the mess made by left-wing California voters, who approved background checks for ammo purchases in 2016. The law was effective as of July 2019. Ammo sales jumped 300% in June before the regulations took hold.
One would hope this would be a message to other rabidly anti-constitutional anti-gun advocates across the nation, especially those like Democrat Governor Ralph Northam of Virginia who is among the lot trying to use the coronavirus crisis to further erode gun rights.
But they will likely ignore the common sense reality of the judicial decision and California may appeal the ruling. The goal here is simple: unarmed people are a lot easier to push around than an armed populace.
Politicians such as those in hard-left California and governors like Northam want to be able to do whatever they please with no chance of pushback of any sort. The Second Amendment was designed to give them second thoughts.
The ability of Americans to bear arms, preferably loaded with ammo, is also handy in a national security sense. As Japanese Admiral Yamamoto replied to his Army when they proposed invading the U.S. after Pearl Harbor, Yamamoto knew America after years as a naval attache in DC: “to invade the U.S. would prove most difficult because behind every blade of grass is an American with a rifle.”
This piece was written by David Kamioner on April 24, 2020. It originally appeared in LifeZette [1] and is used by permission.
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